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Dos and Don'ts of Working the EU

Updated Sept. 3, 2001 5:48 p.m. ET

By John Grimley. Mr. Grimley served in the first Bush administration and now specializes in European issues at London-based public affairs consultants Chelgate. He can be contacted at www.chelgate.com.

Every week U.S. companies learn, to their peril, about the growing power of European Union regulators. When the EU shot down the proposed merger of GE and Honeywell in June, Jack Welch, GE's chairman and chief executive, famously said...